Duluth Winnipeg & Pacific RS11 #3611 is one of my smoothest running locomotive I ever purchased. It as been a staple of or many layout iterations since the club was founded back in 2007. However, I never ventured into customizing and weathering it. I decided it was time to try my hands on it once for all. The shell isn't a perfect match for a DWP lcomotive. Louvers and grilles aren't exactly correct in number and location. But I try to keep my sanity at a safe level... I hope!!!!



First of all, since it was a CNR american subsidiary locomotive, it's was less customized by its owner. Grand Trunk modellers have an easy life, most diesel engines are just stock item from the factory! Anyway, I still had to relocate the horns, add a radio antenna and sunshades.



Antenna is from Detail West and the sunshade are left over from an Athearn CN Dash 9 bought in 1996 (yes, I was once a "modern" guy!!! Classification lights were touched up with aluminium paint too. To complete the model, I would need to had rerailers but I used up all my stock on my CPR RS3. All new details were painted with Citadel paint for their fast drying time. An educated mix of Goblin Green, Chaos Black and Sunburst Yellow produced a very convincing color that blended together with Atlas factory paint.



Finally, I dullcoted the entire model to make oil paint and pastel chalk still better.



I'll try to reproduce an average weathering effect similar to this picture from CNRphotos. I'll probably make it a little bit lighter since I model the late 50s and early 60s.



Hope you enjoy the ride.

Matt

Many of these were on the Central Vermont, still in green and DW&P lettering, in the 1960s -- I saw them when I was misspending my youth in the area! Then they were repainted in CV worm and went straight back to DW&P in that lettering.

jwb Wrote:Many of these were on the Central Vermont, still in green and DW&P lettering, in the 1960s -- I saw them when I was misspending my youth in the area! Then they were repainted in CV worm and went straight back to DW&P in that lettering.

You're right! I once tried to follow the 3611 travel accross the network... The CV Green/Yellow worn paint scheme is quite attractive, probably one of the best after the original CN noodle.

Matt

I just completed the weathering process. I think I finally found my own way to do weathering. Using oil paint gives a lot of control over the process and also create a nice dull finish. I really like it.

Unfortunately, the pictures are quite bad and make the job looks botched and overdone, which isn't the case. I'll try taking others under natural lighting tomorrow.











Matt

That is an awesome looking weathering job!!

Matt

Looks great!

A very fine weathering job! How did you light the green up before you applied the dark and dirt weathering?

faraway Wrote:A very fine weathering job! How did you light the green up before you applied the dark and dirt weathering?

I brushed a very light wash of white and raw sienna. It has to be thinned a lot because not a lot is required to fade the color away. I suspect it would be an effective method for modern era colorful boxcar like Railbox.

I'll take some pictures under better lighting later this afternoon.

Matt

sailormatlac Wrote:

faraway Wrote:A very fine weathering job! How did you light the green up before you applied the dark and dirt weathering?

I brushed a very light wash of white and raw sienna. It has to be thinned a lot because not a lot is required to fade the color away. I suspect it would be an effective method for modern era colorful boxcar like Railbox.

I'll take some pictures under better lighting later this afternoon.

Matt

What brand of paint did you use and how did you delude it? I have frequently the problem that the light color wash has some tiny drops of white paint that make little white dots.

faraway Wrote:What brand of paint did you use and how did you delude it? I have frequently the problem that the light color wash has some tiny drops of white paint that make little white dots.

I also had the same problem when I airbrushed white wash. Did you use acrylic or solvent based paint? Acrylic dries too fast most of the time.

I use artist oil in tube. The brand is Van Gogh by Talens and various other brand. They are thinned with odourless mineral spirit. A friend that is into WW2 modelism use it too, it seems to be a technic well-known among military guys. When you brush on your wash, always use vertical motions. That way, it looks much more like rain weathered the paint. Sometimes, I place small dots of different colors then use a large flat brush soaked in mineral spirit (wipe the excess on a towel before using on the model) then wipe down all the color.

What is nice is that it really doesn't need a lot of oil paint to do the job. My paint tube will probably outlast myself!

Matt

I took some pictures under diffuse natural lighting. Pictures weren't photoshopped, the paint job is as it should be seen in real.









Matt